There’s a lifetime of tension between the McKenna and Stafford ranching families, and Oakley Stafford has the bullet scar to prove it. Defying their parents’ bitter rivalry, Oakley grew up thick as thieves with Duffy McKenna and with Pickett Hanson, the McKennas’ ranch hand. But now the Staffords and McKennas are competing to buy a neighboring property. Both need that land desperately—and the reasons are more dangerous than Oakley knows. There’s another, unspoken rivalry too, between Duffy and Pickett. Where once Oakley ignored the way the two handsome cowboys playfully flirted with her, now she’s untangling complicated feelings that could upend years of friendship. And when a body is found on the contested ranch, it will force all their secrets into the open at last . . .